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...windows looking out of the world to a celestial view beyond. His Spheremusic #2, currently on display at New York's Whitney Museum, combines shining globes in concentric circles, like a baby planetarium. "The ball," he explains, "is the symbol of the infinite, of geometry, of an infinite continuum...
...nothing can be said about it that is "pertinent to the habits of linguistic sense." Contemporary music also flies from exterior meanings. Language today can deal only with the surfaces of experience. "The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part," says Steiner, "is silence. The space-time continuum of relativity, the atomic structure of all matter, the wave-particle state of energy are no longer accessible through the word. Reality now begins outside verbal language...
Suggestive correlations with the use of psychiatric help were also observed in two other questions: "Have you ever felt out of place at Harvard?" and "What kind of a time are you having at Harvard?" Both questions have an element of the satisfaction-dissatisfaction continuum in them. For the 1964 sample only, students who admitted they had felt out of place, or who said they were not having a very good time at Harvard were overrepresented in the psychiatric group. Although the association could not be replicated, the data do tend to strengthen our findings about the dissatisfaction variable...
...imaginary pictorial space behind a frame, they stop at the edges of the canvas and are entirely contained within it. In effect, these paintings become objects contained within the room in which the viewer is standing. Though his motives are different, Warhol uses the same technique to form a continuum between the space and environment of his pictures and the proximate surroundings of his viewers...
...were mere silliness on Anthony's part, he could be forgiven. But it is misunderstanding and distortion, and that cannot be condoned. He has failed to realize that 2 Henry IV is not an isolated work, but a segment of a carefully wrought continuum. Admittedly, he is not alone. A number of Shakespearean scholars who ought to know better maintain that 2 Henry IV is just a rewrite of 1 Henry IV. The names of the characters do remain the same, but the people themselves undergo change -- and the later play is permeated with physical and spiritual disease. Shakespeare...